GILD verdict
Choose Devin when you want Cognition to operate the agent and you prefer a seat price with included usage.
Choose OpenHands when the agent, its models, and its sandboxes must sit on infrastructure and contracts you control. Pilot both on the same scoped tickets and compare merged pull requests against total spend, including model usage.
OpenHands wins when your team will operate the agent and pay model vendors directly; Devin wins when Cognition should run it and sell usage inside the plan. OpenHands is MIT-licensed, runs on the model you connect, and can run entirely on your infrastructure. Each takes a ticket, issue, or chat request, works in a sandboxed machine, and returns a pull request for review.
Choosing between OpenHands and Devin
Choose OpenHands if
- Your security review requires the agent loop, model calls, and sandboxes inside your own VPC.
- You want to use existing model contracts, including Bedrock, Azure, Vertex AI, or open-weight models, and pay model vendors directly.
- Engineers want to inspect or extend the agent, or build their own agents and workflows on the Software Agent SDK.
Choose Devin if
- You want a managed agent with published self-serve plans and no sandbox infrastructure to run.
- Work starts in Microsoft Teams, or you want Linear ticket assignment on a self-serve plan.
- You want Cognition to run a single-tenant VPC for you, or Outposts workers on your machines while planning stays in Cognition's cloud.
Side by side
| Dimension | OpenHands | Devin |
|---|---|---|
| License and operation | Agent Canvas, Software Agent SDK, and CLI under MIT; Enterprise under a commercial license | A Cognition service; the agent loop runs in Cognition's cloud on every deployment model, Outposts included |
| Where work runs | Your machine, your VM, Docker, or Kubernetes backend, OpenHands Cloud, or Enterprise in your VPC | An isolated machine per session in Cognition's cloud, a single-tenant VPC, or Outposts workers you operate on any Pro, Max, or Teams account |
| Models | Any model LiteLLM supports, with your own keys or the OpenHands provider at cost | Models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Cognition, plus open models such as DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM in Devin CLI; GPT usage can bill to a linked ChatGPT plan |
| Individual priceList prices in US dollars. Devin plans include usage quota. OpenHands bills model usage separately, so totals are not directly comparable. | Agent Canvas, the CLI, and the SDK: US$0 plus model usage. The pricing page lists no individual Cloud plan | Free: US$0; Pro: US$20 per month; Max: US$200 per month |
| Team price | Teams: US$500 a month for up to 10 users, self-hosted, with a 30-day trial and 5,000 sessions a month; Enterprise by quote | Teams: US$40 per full seat per month, US$80 monthly minimum, up to 200 members |
| Spend controls | Maximum budget per conversation; monthly organization budgets with alerts at 80, 90, and 100 percent | Plan quota, then on-demand credits; admins set auto-reload thresholds and default session spending limits |
| Where tasks start | Agent Canvas, CLI, Cloud API, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, Jira, and scheduled or event-driven automations; Linear on Enterprise | Web app, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and the API |
What practitioners report, side by side
Each product's figures come from its own practitioners, for the group you pick.
Overall signal
All practitioners rate Devin +37, 22 points above OpenHands at +15. Most of the gap is in praise, with 30 of Devin's 53 sources positive against 21 of OpenHands's 52. Each has 12 negative.
The score counts the authors from all practitioners that take a side, one vote each with their latest view, and is how far positive votes lead negative ones, per 100 votes, so OpenHands's +15 rests on votes split 18 positive, 18 mixed and 11 negative and Devin's +37 on 30, 10 and 11.
A lead of a fifth of the votes reads positive and a lead of half strong positive, with the same lines below zero. The dots show each source, positive, mixed, negative. Use a task pilot to measure accepted work and review time.
Footprint on the Agentic Software Development stack
They differ on one of 12 layers. On Agent runtime, OpenHands is core and Devin supports it. Coverage is each product's placement on this stack, as its product page shows it. Core is a job the product owns; Supports and Touches are jobs it helps with. Coverage says nothing about how well a product does them.
| Layer | OpenHands | Devin |
|---|---|---|
| Build | ||
| Agent runtime | Core | Supports |
The 11 layers where they match
| Layer | OpenHands | Devin |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | ||
| Work planning | Supports | Supports |
| Build | ||
| Codebase context | Supports | Supports |
| Coding | Core | Core |
| Tool execution | Core | Core |
| Validate | ||
| Debugging | Supports | Supports |
| Testing | Supports | Supports |
| Code review | Supports | Supports |
| Application security | Supports | Supports |
| Ship | ||
| Source control | Touches | Touches |
| CI/CD | Touches | Touches |
| Operate | ||
| Observability | Touches | Touches |
What practitioners praise
Among all practitioners, OpenHands alone has three praise themes that reach 5 sources from 3 authors. Model choice and Open source & self-hosting lead, at 14 of 14 and 9 of 10. Of the three themes both carry, Async delegation differs most. It is praised in 4 of the 6 OpenHands sources that discuss it, against 16 of 16 for Devin. Codebase understanding and Migrations & repetitive changes reach 5 sources from 3 authors only for Devin, at 14 of 16 and 7 of 7. OpenHands needs a pilot on the same repository tasks before you choose on either.
| Praised for | OpenHands | Devin |
|---|---|---|
| End-to-end execution | 17 of 17 | 17 of 18 |
| Developer experience | 9 of 18 | 8 of 15 |
| Async delegation | 4 of 6 | 16 of 16 |
| Model choice | 14 of 14 | Not a theme in its sources |
| Open source & self-hosting | 9 of 10 | Not a theme in its sources |
| Stability | 2 of 5 | Not a theme in its sources |
| Codebase understanding | Not a theme in its sources | 14 of 16 |
| Migrations & repetitive changes | Not a theme in its sources | 7 of 7 |
Each count is the sources that praise a theme, or raise it as a concern, out of those that discuss it. A row pairs the two products when both carry a theme under the same or an equivalent name.
A count ending in "so far" has under 5 sources from 3 authors among all practitioners. "Not a theme in its sources" means GILD found no theme of that name in that product's sources.
What practitioners raise as concerns
Among all practitioners, Devin alone has four concern themes that reach 5 sources from 3 authors. Requires strong review and Needs close steering lead, at 11 of 15 and 9 of 10. Of the two themes both carry, Unpredictable task success differs most. It is raised in 18 of the 23 OpenHands sources that discuss it, against 11 of 17 for Devin. OpenHands alone has three concern themes that reach 5 sources from 3 authors. Setup & runtime friction and Security & access lead, at 17 of 21 and 7 of 7.
| Raised as a concern | OpenHands | Devin |
|---|---|---|
| Unpredictable task success | 18 of 23 | 11 of 17 |
| Usage and cost | 9 of 14 | 11 of 18 |
| Setup & runtime friction | 17 of 21 | Not a theme in its sources |
| Security & access | 7 of 7 | Not a theme in its sources |
| Dependence on the model | 7 of 8 | Not a theme in its sources |
| Requires strong review | Not a theme in its sources | 11 of 15 |
| Needs close steering | 3 of 4 so far | 9 of 10 |
| Environment & context setup | Not a theme in its sources | 4 of 8 |
| Session speed | Not a theme in its sources | 3 of 5 |
18 sources
- OpenHands pricing
- OpenHands on GitHub: LICENSE
- OpenHands docs: LLM overview and model recommendations
- OpenHands docs: OpenHands LLM provider and pricing
- OpenHands docs: Sandbox overview
- OpenHands docs: Application settings
- OpenHands docs: Organization budgets
- OpenHands docs: GitHub integration
- OpenHands docs: Jira Cloud integration
- OpenHands docs: OpenHands Enterprise
- OpenHands docs: Enterprise vs. open source
- Devin docs: Self-serve plans
- Devin docs: Usage
- Devin docs: Enterprise deployment
- Devin docs: Outposts
- Devin docs: Integrations overview
- Devin docs: Devin CLI models
- Devin docs: Use your ChatGPT plan in Devin